Earlier than EVGA dropped out of the graphics card sport (opens in new tab) perpetually, the corporate was onerous at work on prototyping its next-gen GPUs for Nvidia’s RTX 40-series. Certainly one of these prototypes, a working RTX 4090 (opens in new tab), is at the moment up for grabs on the EVGA discussion board (opens in new tab), with customers bidding upwards of $9,000 to safe a bit of graphics card historical past.
Named merely ‘Subsequent Gen Graphics’, a title which it bears on its facet, this GPU is not all that a lot to take a look at. There isn’t any different designation or mannequin code, nevertheless, it bears some resemblance to EVGA’s FTW3 mannequin graphics playing cards with its offset triple-fan cooler and big heatsink. It was probably as soon as destined to be the blueprint for that mannequin of card, although it is missing a number of the pizazz you may anticipate from the transport model.
As an alternative because of its rarity—that is presumably the final graphics card EVGA will ever design—this most restricted of restricted version GPUs is at the moment promoting for $9,500 (opens in new tab).
The cardboard is more likely to promote for far more when the public sale involves an finish on December 16 at 11:59 AM PT. EVGA had beforehand listed the cardboard a number of occasions on eBay, previous to operating the discussion board on its public sale, which noticed the worth soar as much as $13,200 (through Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab)) earlier than these listings had been taken down. That was because of EVGA’s new account standing on {the marketplace}, therefore the corporate turning to its personal discussion board for the precise public sale.
It is all for a great trigger. EVGA is not pocketing any of the money itself, it is donating all the cash to St. Jude Youngsters’s Analysis Hospital (opens in new tab), based mostly out of Memphis Tennessee.
That is one graphics card we do not thoughts overpaying for.
EVGA has confirmed the cardboard is totally practical, hasn’t been overclocked, and comes with a max energy restrict of 600W on a secondary BIOS. There isn’t any guarantee included on the cardboard, nevertheless, and no refunds.
